Scottish History
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Philip Loft, ‘Litigation, agency and oligarchy: the transformation and role of the Lords as High Court, 1689-1720’
Dr Paul Hunneyball, Senior Research Fellow on the Lords 1603-1660 section, reports back on our last ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’…
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Jonathan Swift and the Union with Scotland
In the latest in our series on Anglo-Scottish relations throughout the centuries, Dr Ruth Paley, editor of the House of…
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Scotland and the Jacobean Union of 1604-7
In the latest of our series on English-Scottish parliamentary relations throughout the centuries, guest blogger Dr Alan MacDonald (University of…
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MPs at the Battle of Flodden
In the run-up to September’s Scottish Independence referendum, we are publishing a series on the relationship between England and Scotland…
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Parliament and Bannockburn
In the run up to September’s Scottish independence referendum, we’re publishing a series of blogposts on the relationship between England…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Naomi Lloyd-Jones on ‘Deconstructing Westminster: towards a four nations history of the Irish Home Rule crisis, c.1886-93’
Naomi Lloyd-Jones of King’s College, London writes a guest post about her recent paper given to the ‘Parliaments, politics and…
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Remembering Culloden
On 16 April 1746, the battle of Culloden brought to a close the last serious attempt to restore the exiled…
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‘There has been all along something odd in this affair’: The Malt Tax and the 1713 attempt to repeal the Union
300 years ago this month, arguments over the Malt Tax nearly brought the fledgling Union between England and Scotland to…
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On this day in 1606: Proposed union between England and Scotland
Our Parliament Week ‘on this day’ article for today features a debate that is still relevant today… On this day…